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Grinding Mill.

Patented Sept. 3, 1867.

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' C. N. TAYLOR, OF COOKSTOWN, NEW JERSEY.

' Letters Patent No. 68,539, dated September 3, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRINDING-MILLS.

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'1O ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

. Be it known that I, O. N. TAYLOR, of Cookstown, in the county of Burlington, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved Miller's Alarm; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whicl1- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same, the line of section being indicated by the line xx, fig. 1.

Figure3 is a detail sectional view of the alarm-bell, the plane of section being indicated by the line yy, fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to so arrange a millers alarm that as soon as the corn in the hopper descends to a certain mark the alarm will be sounded while some corn still in the hopper to keep themill going.

The invention consists i narranging within the hopper A, of a common mill, 3. plate, a, which is hinged to one side of the-hopper so as to turn i'reel around the horizontal pin b. To the outer orswinging end of this plate is secured a cord, 0, which is passed through the wall of the hopper above the pin [1, its other end being attached to the bell B, The bell is secured to an elbow-lever, C, which is pivoted to the casing D of the mill, and swings freely thereon. When the hopper is filled with corn, the plate a will be held, by the weight of the corn, in the position shown in red lines in fig. 2, thus suspending the hell; but as soon as the corn declines in the hopper as far as indicated in fig. 2, the weight of the hell will be greater than that of the corn, and the bell will pull the plate a into the position shown in fig. .3. Within the bell B is firmly arranged an inverted box, (I, to which is pivoted the clapper e. The latter is provided with an arm, e, which, when the bell drops down, as before described, rests upon the upper revolving millstone E, and thus supports the bell. Upon the stone E is secured a pin or stud,f, which, when the bell is lowered, comes in contact with the end of the arm e of the ciapper, and, as the stone revolves, the said pin f moves the arm e in the direction of the arrow in fig. 3, and after the pin has passed a spring,- g, in the box (I, throws the clapper against the bell and sounds the alarm. By arranging more than one pirrf on the stone E, a continual ringing-of the bell may be effected. Thus, as the corn in the hopper decreases, sothat its weight will not be able any longer to hold down the plate a, the alarm will be sounded at once, each pinfon the stone E producing one stroke of the clapper duringeaeh revolution of the said stone.

i I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent.-

The combination of the plate a in the hopper with the cord or chain 0, swinging bell l3, elbow-clapper e, and pin or stu'df, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 1st day of November, 1866.

C. N. TAYLOR. Witnesses:

- WM. F. MGNAMARA,

ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

